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Call for Proposals

Cold War Legacy in Europe:  Commemoration, Adaptation, and Exhibition

Workshop in Udine, Italy

13-15 June 2024

Jointly organized by the University of Udine, Cold War Studies/Harvard University, and Friuli Storia

This workshop will bring together scholars from various countries to investigate practices of commemoration, adaptation, and exhibition of the material heritage of the Cold War with a particular but not exclusive focus on European border regions (i.e., regions along the dividing line between East and West from the mid-1940s through the early 1990s).

I recently read an article published in 1923 in the Centralverein Zeitung which exhorted readers to attend the CV's public speaking classes as one way to confront rising anti-Semitism. I've caught similar offhanded references to public speaking classes for KPD and SPD supporters at various times in the post-WWI period. I'd like to learn more about public speaking classes--sponsored by political parties or in German schools--during this period. I'm also interested in other public speaking resources available in Germany in the Weimar era. I know, for example, that various political groups

Deutsches transnationales Kino

Tagung an der Universität Lodz

Institut für Germanistik

5. – 6. April 2024

Call for papers

Inspiriert durch Andrew Higson, der behauptete: „The cinemas established in specific nation-states are rarely autonomous cultural industries and the film business has long operated on a regional, national and transnational basis“ (Higgson 2000: 61), möchten wir zu einer kritischen Reflexion über die Transnationalität des deutschsprachigen Kinos einladen.

Filme zirkulieren heute verstärkt zwischen den Ländern und Nationen; auch in der

The 23rd Annual Conference of the German and Dutch Graduate Student Assocation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Environments in German and Dutch Studies

Date: September 29-30, 2023

Keynote Speaker

Workshop Speakers

Dr. Seth Howes 

(University of Missouri)

Dr. Julia Goetze, 

Dr. Diego Roman 

(UW-Madison)

Nothing occurs in a vacuum, language perhaps least of all. Whether it be in the classroom or in a poem, the environment in which language occurs impacts it in myriad ways. Throughout German and Dutch studies, environments in every sense impact our areas